GREAT ASS Fifteen teens treated for rabies after GANG RAPING a donkey… as cops urge others who ‘admired’ the beast to come forward The stricken youths spent a week in a Moroccan hospital after catching the highly-contagious disease from the beast By Jon Lockett, The Sun, 15th August 2017, The innocent donkey has now been put down on the orders of police (stock image) FIFTEEN teenagers in a rural Moroccan town have been treated for rabies after reportedly raping an infected...

China surpasses Japan as US' biggest creditor chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-08-16 A $100 banknote is placed next to 100 yuan banknotes in this October 16, 2010 file picture illustration taken in Beijing. [Photo/Agencies] China overtakes Japan as the largest foreign owner of US treasury securities after increasing its holdings for the fifth straight month to $1.15 trillion as of the end of June this year. The China's June figure surpassed Japan's $1.09 trillion of US bonds,...

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Antifa: Left-wing militants on the rise
By Brenna Cammeron
BBC News
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Image caption Anti-fascist counter-protesters outside Emancipation Park in Charlottesville
The violence and murder of a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend has been attributed to far-right...

The UV3 Nautilus in early sea trials in 2008. Frumperino
Reporter missing after "minor problem with ballast" caused near-instant sinking.
Believe it or not, there's a crowdsourced, open source non-profit attempting to build a sea-launched suborbital rocket. Called Copenhagen Suborbitals, it even had access to a submarine. A club associated with the venture completed the sub in 2008, designed by Peter Madsen, a Danish inventor who is co-founder of the group. That submarine...

The fear is that N Korea will hit Guam with 4 nuclear weapons. The Guam government is passing out fliers telling the population how to deal with radioactive contamination.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3923203/Missile-Threat.pdf
I think everyone is missing the point. N Korea is not going to hit Guam, which would bring about their annihilation. What they may try and do is land 4 missiles (non nuclear) in the waters in the general north south east and west areas off...

The most depressing aspect of the current North Korean crisis is that even if Donald Trump wins, he loses.
Despite doubling down on his rhetoric of "fire and fury" and deriding his predecessors for failed negotiations, Trump looks like he wants to eventually strike a deal with the nation’s tyrant, Kim Jong Un. Just look at what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is doing. Trump threatens war and Tillerson promises no regime change. Remember it was only a few months ago that Trump said he...

First, consider the question posed by Queen Elizabeth, who, on visiting the London School of Economics after the housing bubble and market crash that ushered in the Great Recession, asked “Why did nobody notice it?”
It is certainly an indictment of the economics profession that so few identified the conditions leading to a recession that wiped out trillions in wealth, led to the loss of millions of homes and jobs, and put economies across the globe into a hole from which most,...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The leaders of Poland's Jewish community have written to the country's most powerful politician, urging him to denounce rising anti-Semitism which they say is leaving them on edge.
Anna Chipczynska, the head of Warsaw's Jewish community, told The Associated Press on Thursday the letter to Jaroslaw Kaczynski was sent last week. She said the community hadn't yet received a reply.
In the letter she and Leslaw Piszewski, who oversees all Jewish communities in...

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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's prime minister said Tuesday that Parliament could legalize gay marriage this year if the nation's voters endorse it in a rare nonbinding poll in November.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he expected the public would support marriage equality in the so-called plebiscite, and that he would personally campaign for a "yes" vote. It would be only the fourth time in Australian history, and first time in 43 years, that the government...

The UK’s largest children’s charity Barnardo’s caused controversy this week while attempting to raise awareness of the barbaric act of female genital mutilation (FGM). For those who missed the tweet, Barnardo’s posted out to their 176,000 followers: “FGM is particularly prevalent during school holidays. Here are some signs a girl may be at risk” Nothing wrong with that, right? No, the problem came when they accompanied the tweet with the image of a white girl in Western clothing...

NETANYAHU'S GIFT TO HAMAS
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHU responds to a disgusting gesture with complete class.
Netanyahu received an item from the leader of HAMAS.
The leader of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, sent a "gift"..(actually, it was a gesture of hate and contempt...

Emmanuel Macron's honeymoon didn't last long.
Less than three months after his election, France's energetic and image-conscious president has seen his popularity drop after announcing budget cuts, launching a divisive labor reform and engaging in a damaging dispute with the military.
A series of opinion polls last week showed the percentage of French citizens who said they were satisfied with Macron's policies and trusted their young leader to deal with the country's problems...

Europe's Cities Absorb Sharia Law by Giulio Meotti, Gatestone Institute, August 2, 2017 If the West keeps betraying the democratic value of individual freedom, Islamic fundamentalists, like those who imposed burqas on Libyan women, will do the same to Western women. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images) Within days after the Islamic State conquered the city of Sirte in Libya two years ago, enormous billboards appeared in the Islamist stronghold warning women they must wear...

Gad Saad, the Canadian evolutionary behavioral scientist, conducts an interview with Imam Mohammad Tawhidi. (Islamic reformer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8deTppcltM
His views or interpretations of Islam, are shared by a tiny minority of Muslims, but he has a message that desperately needs to be heard. While this interview may be rather long, you will find it well worth the investment of your time. It is an illuminating interview.
His controversial views should be protected. If...

At 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, Israeli police say, authorities arrested five Palestinian antiquities dealers in Jerusalem and confiscated items dating back thousands of years from their homes and shops: papyrus fragments from the Egyptian Book of the Dead , the bust of an Etruscan woman , a fresco from Pompeii depicting swimming fish. They also seized more modern objects — two black luxury Audi vehicles — and more than $200,000 in cash.
NPR has learned the reason for the early...

With a ceremony on Tuesday, China officially opened its first overseas military base -- though it would prefer that you not call it that.
Instead, the base, located on the coast of Djibouti along the strategically significant Gulf of Aden not far from the Suez Canal, is referred to by Chinese state media as a "logistics support base" from which China will project its humanitarian, rather than military, power, helping to supply and coordinate peacekeeping and charitable...

https://newrepublic.com/article/144160/last-hope-venezuela-also-frightening-one
Thinking back to Hugo Chávez’s glory years, it’s amazing how severely the revolutionary sheen of Chavismo has been dulled. His movement, after all, once had the star power to attract left-wing celebrities from Sean Penn to Naomi Campbell, and was seen as a model throughout the region. These days, no Latin American politician in his right mind would dream of citing Venezuela as anything but a cautionary...

From the Times of Israel article
"Jordan’s King Abdullah II vowed justice over the death of a teenager who was killed by an Israeli security guard after being stabbed by him with a screwdriver."
Link to full article below
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-king-visits-slain-embassy-stabbers-family-vows-justice/
Let me get this straight, he attacked and stabbed an Israeli Embassy guard. He was shot during said attack, and subsequently died, but now he's the one that's been...

The Sunday Times of London fired controversial columnist Kevin Myers on Sunday and removed his latest piece from its website amid outrage over the column’s blatant anti-Semitic and sexist comments.
Myers’ column, titled “Sorry, Ladies ― Equal Pay Has To Be Earned,” focused on the dismal wage gap between men and women presenters working at the BBC. It appeared online and in the paper’s Irish edition.
Myers suggested that two of the BBC’s female hosts, Claudia...

Palestinians: The Metal Detector Scam by Khadija Khan, Gatestone Institute, July 29, 2017 Palestinians near Jerusalem's Old City protest Israel's installation of metal detectors at entrances to the Temple Mount, although the metal detectors had already been removed days before, on July 28, 2017. (Photo by Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images) After massive pressure from the Muslim world and international community, Israel removed all metal detectors and surveillance-camera infrastructure...

The full article from McClatchy .
Commentary: Frankly, this should have taken place long ago. If South Korea does move in this direction and that is most likely, can Japan be far behind? Considering the historical love and admiration the countries in this region have towards each other... Japan might already have a secret stash.
Now China is faced with the possibility of North Korea, South Korea AND Japan having nuclear weapons down the road.
What say China? The ball is in your...

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What restores peace for Jerusalem’s Old City
The Christian Science Monitor
July 25, 2017 — In most religions, sacred shrines are meant to remind the faithful of the promise of peace. But for Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem’s Old City, that promise seemed illusive this month. A series of killings, which began at the Temple Mount on July 14, set off the worst violence between Israelis and Palestinians in years. The potential of a major conflict...